Trouble Brewing (brewery)

Trouble Brewing

Company type	Independent craft brewery
Industry	Alcoholic beverages
Founded	2009
Headquarters	Kill, County Kildare , Ireland
Products	Beer
Owner	Stephen Clinch and Damo [1]
Website	troublebrewing.ie

Trouble Brewing Dark Arts Porter

Trouble Brewing is a brewery in Kill, County Kildare, Ireland, that produces a number of high end ales, IPAs, stouts, and lagers. The brewery distributes throughout Ireland and in a number of countries in the EU. The brewery was founded by Paul O'Connor, Stephen Clinch, and Thomas Prior in 2009. Trouble Brewing was at the Bord Bía Bloom Festival ^[2] in 2011. ^[3] Since June 2011, Trouble Brewing has been the first brewery in Ireland to accept payment in Bitcoin.^{[ citation needed ]}

Beers

• Trouble Brewing Deception Golden Ale, 4.3% ABV ^[4]
• Trouble Brewing Dark Arts Porter, 4.4% ABV
• Trouble Brewing Sabotage IPA, launched 31 January 2013 ^[5]

Seasonal

• Pumpkin Brew, a pumpkin-spiced beer for Halloween ^{[6] [7]}
• Spelt Saison, a special-edition brew, served in casks, based on recipe chosen in 2012 "Troublemaker" home brewing competition ^{[8] [9]}
• Trouble Brewing Galaxy Pale Ale, 4.5% ABV (N/A)

Brewery

The brewery uses a computer system based on Arduino hardware, and the brewing control mechanism uses software that has been shared using an open-source usage creative commons attribution share-alike licence. ^[10]

References

1. "Rising in the yeast". The Irish Times. 26 March 2011.(subscription required)
2. Bloom in the Phoenix Park
3. "Irish craft breweries". 27 May 2011. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
4. "The Best Craft Beers in Ireland – Holidays Around Ireland | Holidays Around Ireland". Archived from the original on 16 February 2012.
5. Trouble Brewing [@troublebrewing] (6 January 2013). "@BullandCastle mouth watering" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
6. "Trouble Brewing Pumpkin Brew". Archived from the original on 24 March 2014.
7. "There's a Pumpkin Theme for Hallowe'en". Trouble Brewing. 11 October 2012.
8. "Trouble Brewing – Trouble Brewing".
9. "A Fitting Bookend". 15 September 2012.
10. Trouble Brewing Creative Commons-licensed Software Archived 14 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine ^{[ clarification needed ]}

External links

• Official website
• Confessions of a Trouble Maker, Rossa O'Neill, Beoir.org, 11 April 2011.
• Something Brewing in the Curragh, Kildare Nationalist, Sept. 2010.
• New Allenwood Brewery Promoting its First Beer, Liffey Valley Champion, 5 July 2010.